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Goldberg, Ben - Eight Phrases For Jefferson Rubin CD Goldberg is the clarinetist & leader of the new Klezmer trio, & has records on the Tzadik, Knitting Factory, Songlines & Music & Arts label. This has Ben, 2 bassists, sax (Larry Ochs), guitar (John Schott) & drums (Michael Sarin). [Victo] VICTO057 $15.00
Band, Ellen - 90% Post Consumer Sound ''...her 'sound art'..is celestial in its implications & down to earth in its reverence for everyday noises.''-Kyle Gann/Village Voice. [Experimental Intermedia] XI124 $12.00
Shepp, Archie - Yasmina, A Black Woman CD Reissued on CD from the master tapes for the very first time! "There is some intriguing music on [Yasmina]. Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp met up with members of the Chicago avant-garde school for the first time, including Art Ensemble of Chicago members Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell and Malachi Favors, on the lengthy "Yasmina," a track that also includes drummers Philly Joe Jones, Art Taylor and Sunny Murray. On "Sonny's Back," there is an unlikely tenor tradeoff between Shepp and Hank Mobley... 28-CHAY529304.2 $16.00
After Dinner - Paradise of Replica vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) The second, final and best studio album from this early to the scene Japanese avant / art pop ensemble! “After Dinner's Paradise of Replica is a concise nugget of tomfoolery that occupies a whimsical no man's land between art pop, Japanese folk music, and full-assed Art Zoydian avant proggery. Gentle, arcane and covertly sweeping, it typifies that friendly strain of experimentalism that Eastern music seems so predisposed towards and which curious minds find such great delight in... 05-ZORN 082LP $33.00
Atkinson, Félicia / Richard Chartier - Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brulante / Recurrence.Expansion vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Félicia Atkinson's Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (Pour Georgia O'Keeffe) is approached as a meditation, not as meditative music, but as a reflection on the art of creation: how to inhabit one's creation, how to convey it, domesticate it and live with it. Drawing inspiration from the artist Georgia O' Keeffe, both in her work as a painter and in the houses in which she lived in New Mexico, and even in the landscapes that surround them, Félicia Atkinson has composed a piece that evokes... 05-SPGRM 008LP $29.00
Ilgenfritz, James - #entrainments CD “#entrainments is the latest album from bassist and composer James Ilgenfritz. The album features his European quartet, consisting of Köln-based saxophonist Angelika Niescier and cellist Nathan Bontrager, and Zürich-based percussionist Gerry Hemingway. #entrainments presents the first documentation of Ilgenfritz's new series of #entrainments compositions, which draw primarily on jazz, contemporary classical, and conceptual art practices. This system of compositions de-couples structure and intuition in... 39-CD-IS-1050 $15.00
Schnitzler, Conrad - Rot vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "There was a particular type of artist who could only have emerged in the legendary early 1970s. Few musicians fit the bill better than Conrad Schnitzler (Tangerine Dream, Kluster). Revolution, pop art and Fluxus created a climate which engendered... 05-BB 102LP $28.00
Piazzolla, Astor - Tango: Zero Hour "This is absolutely the greatest record I've made in my entire life. We gave our souls to this record."-Astor Piazolla. Astor Piazolla was a Argentinian bandoneon (button accordion) player and composer who took the tango - the music of his homeland - and pretty much single-handedly turned it into art music. The first album to gain major attention for him, this features his fabulous New Tango Quintet [Astor Piazolla-bandoneon, Fernando Suarez Paz-violin, Pablo Ziegler-piano, Hoaracio Malvicino... 28-NNS79469.2 $20.00
Sun Ra - I Roam The Cosmos vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Since there are so many posthumously released Ra discs, some of which are pretty stinky sonic quality, I thought I would mention that for a live 1972 show at the [in]famous Slug�s, this sounds quite good and the balances are good. �Art Yard continues their voyage into the omniverse of unreleased Sun Ra tapes with I Roam The Cosmos, an unreleased, previously unheard 1972 live session recorded at Slug's Saloon in New York. Fronting a stellar 18-piece incarnation of the Arkestra, I Roam The Cosmos... 05-ARTYARD 2021LP $30.00
Schnitzler, Conrad - Rot CD (expanded) "There was a particular type of artist who could only have emerged in the legendary early 1970s. Few musicians fit the bill better than Conrad Schnitzler (Tangerine Dream, Kluster). Revolution, pop art and Fluxus created a climate which engendered... 05-BB 102 $18.00
ZGA - Zgamoniums “File under early Russian industrial rock/art; Harry Partch, incorporating primitive analogue electronics. A legend in art and industrial music circles, ZGA was formed under the old regime in Riga, Lavia, in 1984, by Nick Sudnik and Valery Dudkhin. Unable to rehearse acoustically because of the neighbours, they invented their own instruments from scrap and springs and shaped metal fitted with contact microphones; these were not just noise instruments, but ways of accessing complex pitches, strange... RERZGA1 $15.00
Nocturnal Emissions / Barnacles - From Solstice to Equinox CD Nocturnal Emissions / Barnacles-From Solstice to Equinox CD $19.00 “Nocturnal Emissions was founded in 1980 by Nigel Ayers together with collaborators Daniel Ayers and Caroline K. They have released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic, musique concrete, hybridised beats, sound collage, post-industrial music, ambient and noise music. The sound art has been part of an ongoing multimedia campaign of guerrilla sign ontology utilising video art, film, hypertext and other... 21-GG432 $19.00
Single Celled Organism - Splinter In The Eye "Single Celled Organism is the new progressive rock project of Jens Lueck. The attentive progVisions reader will recognize this name from my reviews of the albums of his musical partners Isgaard and Volker Kuinke. The later makes music under the moniker Syrinx Call. Jens Lueck has his own Art Of Music Studio and is a respected producer, composer and musician. My first acquaintance with Jens Lueck was at the time when he produced some albums of one of my favorite German bands, Sylvan. To stay with Sylvan... Moon 002 $17.00
Berrocal, Jac / David Fenech / Vincent Epplay - Ice Exposure “Jac Berrocal is a 1946-born musician, poet and film actor who came of age in the '70s Paris improv scene, where the boundaries between music, art and theatre were porous and begging to be breached. Inspired by bebop, chanson, free jazz, beat poetry, early rock 'n roll and myriad Eastern influences, and with an iconoclastic, anything-goes approach to instrumentation and technique that would later align him with post-punk sensibilities, Berrocal blazed an eccentric and unstoppable trail across the 21-GG326 $19.00
Single Celled Organism - Splinter In The Eye 2 x vinyl lps (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Single Celled Organism is the new progressive rock project of Jens Lueck. The attentive progVisions reader will recognize this name from my reviews of the albums of his musical partners Isgaard and Volker Kuinke. The later makes music under the moniker Syrinx Call. Jens Lueck has his own Art Of Music Studio and is a respected producer, composer and musician. My first acquaintance with Jens Lueck was at the time when he produced some albums of one of my favorite German bands, Sylvan. To stay with Sylvan... Moon LP 002 $30.00
Eloy - The Vision, The Sword & The Pyre, part II : 2 x vinyl lps (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "It's finished! Frank Bornemann, the grand seigneur of German art and progressive rock and mastermind behind Eloy, has completed his opus magnum on the story of Joan of Arc just two years after the appearance of the first part. Impressive, and at the same time touching, this work leads us through the fascinating story of this legendary figure of the Middle Ages. In relation to it's complex thematic form and historical accuracy, the author has received support from the Centre Jeanne d'Arc in Orléans... 21-MIG 02201 $30.00
Wind - Seasons (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Originating as a beat group in the mid-60's, playing mainly at US air bases in Southern Germany. By 1969 (and after many name and personnel changes) they'd become the art-rock band Chromosom, heavily influenced by the American West Coast sound. After the addition of Bernd "Steve" Leistner on vocals, and the new name Wind, they recorded their debut album for the new progressive arm of the budget label Miller, namely +Plus+. Seasons offered a richly textured progressive rock, lyrical yet also very... LHC 082 $34.00
Kalma, Ariel - Nuits Blanches au Studio 116 vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Nuits Blanches au Studio 116 is unreleased rarities from Ariel Kalma's personal archives recorded in the legendary GRM's Studio 116 during the '70s. Born and raised in Paris, Ariel Kalma started playing the recorder and saxophone as a youth. After successive studies of computer science, music, and art in Paris he performed in various concerts from middle-age music to free jazz duo. Ariel performed and recorded with several bands (J. Higelin, R. Pinhas, NYL, G. Scornic, Baden Powell...) After learning... 05-TRANSVERS 012LP $33.00
Rani, Sharan / Chatur Lal - Music Of India (Mega Blowout Sale) "Her teachers were the revered Allauddin Khan, guru to Ravi Shankar, who taught most of the best known instrumentalists in Northern India, and his son, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, the great master sarodist who founded schools in America and who, with his brother-in-law Shankar did so much to bring world renown to the mysteries of Indian classical music. With more formal education than most Indian performers (she held an M.A from Delhi University), Sharan Rani combined intellectual understanding of her art with... 23-ACMEM 256CD $4.00
Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) Their last release! "In many ways Kumoyo Island represents the culmination of a journey for Kikagaku Moyo. While their decade-long career can be summarized as a series of kaleidoscopic explorations through lands and dimensions far and near, there's a strong intention in each of their works to take the listener to a particular place, however real or abstract they may be. In that sense, the title and cover art for the band's fifth and final album draws you into a magical mass of land surrounded by... 26-GGB-028LP $34.00
Ibarra, Susie - Perception vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) “Susie Ibarra is one of the most significant female percussionists and composers of our time, known for her work as a performer within contemporary, avant-garde, jazz, classical, and world music, having worked with the likes of John Zorn, Yo La Tengo, Mamadou Kelly, Marc Ribot, and many more. Perception, self-released in December 2017 and now being distributed through Thrill Jockey, is a beautiful piece of art, layering sound and centered around the way one perceives the world around them, and how this... 39-LP-THRILL-949 $25.00
Umphrey's McGee - Live DVD Legendary on the jam band circuit, Chicago-based Umphrey's McGee has perfected the art of progressive improvisation. Swirling guitars and innovative multi-faceted arrangements keep fans on their toes. With power and finesse, this sextet brings jamming... 28-Image 71085 $17.00
Ayler, Albert - New York Eye and Ear Control vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Michael Snow is a Canadian national treasure, a true Renaissance man. He assembled a stellar group to improvise a sound track for his art film, titled Walking Woman, featuring a silhouette that is rumored to have been inspired by Carla Bley."... 05-ESP 1016 LP $21.00
Frith, Fred - Eleventh Hour 2 x CDs With Arditti String Quartet, Uwe Dierksen (trombone), William Winnant (guitar), Fred Frith (guitar). "Fred Frith is driven by a powerful creative energy, a desire to experiment, and a never-ending interest in life and all of its facets. He is one of the most prominent rock musicians to explore the possibilities of free improvisation and new classical forms, playing on albums by the Residents, Brian Eno, Amy Denio and René Lussier, to name a few. Just like life itself, contemporary art and music... 28-WNTR103.2 $33.00
Umphrey's McGee - Live Blu-Ray Legendary on the jam band circuit, Chicago-based Umphrey's McGee has perfected the art of progressive improvisation. Swirling guitars and innovative multi-faceted arrangements keep fans on their toes. With power and finesse, this sextet brings jamming... 28-Image 71422 $19.00
Reich, Steve - Four Organs / Phase Patterns vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Reissue of a seminal Shandar lp of early Reich music, recorded at two concerts in 1970. Both pieces are for four organs, & you can hear the early elements of his non tape-music here. Includes Phillip Glass as a member of the ensemble!" "'Four Organs' is the ultimate minimalist composition. Performed by Reich, Glass, Art Murphy and Steve Chambers, four identical Farfisa organs strike a single chord and gradually lengthen each note to produce polyrhythms between the players. Anchored by Jon... 28-SPRV96.1 $27.00
Kilimanjaro DarkJazz Ensemble - Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble CD “The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble formed in 2000 as a project to compose new music for existing silent movies. Jason Köhnen and Gideon Kiers, both graduates of the Utrecht School of Arts, combined their audio and visual skills to reinterpret classic movies by F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and F. Lang (Metropolis). In 2004 UK trombonist Hilary Jeffery and Swiss cellist Nina Hitz joined TKDE to record this self-titled debut album which was released in May 2006. The ensuing tour saw Eelco Bosman and Paris based... 39-CD-DEN-076 $16.00
Jayaraman, Lalgudi G - Violin Waves CD "Violin Waves" is a new, important chapter devoted to the examination of the art of one of the major representative of South Indian classical music. In "Violin Waves" LALGUDI G JAYARAMAN is accompanied by the violin of Lalgudi GJR Krishnan and by the... 08-FY8130 $18.00
Mace, Pierre-Yves/Quatuor Pli - Crash Test II Born in 1980, Pierre Yves-Mace began as an improviser, played in jazz-rock prog bands, studied classically, accompanied dance classes and has composed electronic music for theater, dance and the martial arts. This is a single composition for string... 00-ORKHESTRA008 $18.00
Scarlet Thread - Valheista Kaunein Founded in 1995, in 2004, this Finnish instrumental art rock quintet released their first album, which was very good and showed promise, but this, their second goes beyond promise and delivers the goods! Their distinctive sound is predicated on the fac... 01-MUSEA 4670 $16.00
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Magical Power From Mars "Acid Mothers Temple and Important Records have decided to release the complete Magical Power From Mars in its entirety with the addition of the fourth and final track 'Aladdin Kane.' Magical Power From Mars comes housed with completely new front and back art and no expense was spared on more 3D lenticular covers for the front. This is the complete album available for the first time in its entirety. Magical Power From Mars is an album full of epic statements from the Acid Mothers. Each track has an... 05-Imprec 017 $14.00
Albatros - Garden Of Eden "Elaborate art rock from Hagen circa 1978. Similar to early Genesis or early Wallenstein. Three long tracks, well played and neatly recorded. Recommended. With 28 page color booklet"... 18-GOD 043 $18.00
Hackett, Steve - Cured (remastered/expanded/bonus tracks) 1981 was a bad year for music. Even the energy and anger of punk had pretty much given away to 'new wave' and 'new wave pop'. So, what is a old school, art-rock guy like Steve gonna do? He dumps his band, he keeps the keyboardist, adds guests here and... 15-CHARISMA3844152 $12.00
Ballou, Dave - Solo Trumpet "With a remarkable trajectory as both a trumpeter and a composer, Dave Ballou performs in and composes for orchestras and big ensembles (Either/Orchestra, Meridian Art Ensemble, John Hollenbeck’s Large Ensemble, Woody Herman Big Band and so on), but here we find him playing solo, sometimes using pre-notated materials, others improvising on the edge. In the crossroads of jazz and classical music, he interpreted Bach’s “Bradenburg Concertos” and worked with the recently departed third stream mentor... Clean Feed CF 349 $15.00
Fusion - Top Soul (Mega Blowout Sale) "Impossible to find jazz/soul/funk monster by Fusión, issued in Chile in 1975 by ALBA (ALD-041)—a fulsome combination of funk, electric jazz, and soul, with Latin roots. Bassist Enrique Luna had lived and studied art in New York, and knew first-hand... 18-Lion 673 $9.00
Washington, Dinah - The Birdland Broadcasts: 1951-1952 (Mega Blowout Sale) "This is a splendid example of the young Dinah Washington. It's recorded live at Birdland on the Symphony Sid radio program. The sound is excellent for what it is, the band (Wynton Kelly, Percy Heath, Art Blakey, Jimmy Cobb, Ed Shaughnessy, etc) are... 23-GSCR 204 $4.00
Ashra - Correlations Complete 5 x CD box set (due to weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Limited one-time collectors' edition released in 2008 and previously only available from MG.ART's mailorder. The first disc is a remastered version of the 1990 Virgin CD reissue of Correlations, recorded and mixed at Panne-Paulsen Studio, Frankfurt, in 1978 by Mick Glossop and originally released by Virgin in 1979. The second disc is the first release of Phantasus, Manuel Göttsching and Udo Arndt's original 1978 recording and mix of the album that was partially re-recorded and totally remixed to... 05-MGART 205CD $42.00
Selby Jr., Hubert - It/ll Be Better Tomorrow DVD In addition to the things outlined below, he's also collaborated with Richard Pinhas recently and his voice is heard on some of his recent works. "This documentary is a harrowing and engaging exploration into the life and art of the renowned author... 21-MVD2082 $18.00
Section 25 - So Far DVD Section 25 were a cool Factory band that I remember seeing around 1982 and really enjoying in a weird-o, art-punk kinda way; amazing to see a DVD of them emerge...they were pretty obscure. "This DVD gathers together rare live and studio footage from... 21-LTM2429 $27.00
Sommer, Günter 'Baby' - Le Piccole Cose “We are called Gunter Baby Sommer’s Quarteto Trionfale,” the 73-year-old drummer said right before this concert to make sure the band would be announced correctly. “You know, like Art Blakey’s Jazz Messenger’s.” The fact that Sommer feels a deep connection to the African-American roots of Jazz also resonates in his nickname, which can be traced back to Louis Armstrong’s drummer “Baby” Dodds. It is no contradiction, that this “Baby” belongs to the generation of East German musicians, who, some forty years... 34-INTCHR 71321 $17.00
Siddhartha - Weltschmerz vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Siddhartha were formed in 1973 in Korntal near Stuttgart. They were named named after a novel by Hermann Hesse. They performed an intelligent mixture of progressive and art rock influenced by psychedelia and folk. Although their 1975 album is called... 18-GOD 013LP $34.00
Nyman, Michael - The Draughtman's Contract (special) I'm hardly a cinephile, but I found Peter Greenaway's films unusual and unusually odd art films of the 80s and 90s to be really great and fascinating. And, of course, Michael Nyman's wonderfully insistent, personal take on minimalism fueled all of... 23-MNRCD 105 $10.00
Eloy - The Vision, The Sword & The Pyre, part II "It's finished! Frank Bornemann, the grand seigneur of German art and progressive rock and mastermind behind Eloy, has completed his opus magnum on the story of Joan of Arc just two years after the appearance of the first part. Impressive, and at the same time touching, this work leads us through the fascinating story of this legendary figure of the Middle Ages. In relation to it's complex thematic form and historical accuracy, the author has received support from the Centre Jeanne d'Arc in Orléans... 28-ATIT331902.2 $18.00
Richard, Ferdinand - En Forme!! vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) This is the first solo album from one of the main folks in Etron Fou Leloublan. It was originally released on the Celluloid label in 1981, around the same time that the band was working on "Les Poumons Gonfl�s". Even though the personnel is listed semi-pseudonymously, I'm pretty sure that this is all of Etron Fou backing him on this. Not quite as great as Etron Fou, but still very good and even whackier. "A unique blend of dadaist jazz, art rock and new wave, inviting Ferdinand into the 15-RPC 018 $23.00
Cline, Nels - Dirty Baby 2 x CD box set "Born of a provocative mating of art and music, Dirty Baby is guitarist/composer Nels Cline and poet/producer David Breskin's visionary recontextualization of Ed Ruscha's "censor strip" paintings. This sumptuous double-CD box set includes more than an... 28-CRYP142.2 $25.00
O'Rourke, Jim - To Magnetize Money and Catch a Roving Eye 4 x CD box "A four-hour work, recorded at Jim O'Rourke's studio, Steamroom, between 2017 and 2018. Detailed and delicate electronic layers, processed instruments, and ambiguous field recordings come together in a slow-moving, fascinating kaleidoscope with multiple reflections and wrong turns, always in a constant state of flux. The finely crafted art of subterfuge. The four-CD set To Magnetize Money and Catch a Roving Eye is a hypnotic, multi-faceted, labyrinthine piece which flows as slowly as a river while.... 05-SNS 016CD $42.00
Ilitch - 10 Suicides vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "In 1980, Ilitch mastermind Thierry M�ller released his second LP, 10 Suicides, on the French imprint S.C.O.P.A. Unlike his debut Periodikmindtrouble (also available from Superior Viaduct), which featured intricately layered instrumentals, 10 Suicides explores a more art-damaged pop sensibility. While distorted guitars and atmospheric synth workouts remain a part of M�ller's signature sound, several songs credit the mysterious Ruth Ellyeri, who was not an actual person, but rather M�ller's female... 15-SV 075 LP $28.00
Semiramis - Dedicato A Frazz vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) "Semiramis is one the many "one-shot" bands of 70's Italy. Their only album is one of my favourite albums of 70's Italian art rock. There are fantastic, heavy progressive passages (especially in the middle of the album) with heavy, intense guitar riffs... 27-TRI LP1004 $32.00
RPWL - A New Dawn 2 x CDs "2017 release from the German progressive rock band. The concept albums Wanted (2014) and Beyond Man And Time (2012) are widely recognized as the pinnacle of German art rock giants RPWL's discography which meanwhile comprises more than a dozen releases. On the occasion of it's 20th anniversary, the band releases the long-awaited concert movie A New Dawn. It documents the last stop of the tour in support of the Wanted album and that evening the Bavarians played in their hometown of Freising, Bavaria in... 28-GARM46.2 $17.00
Reverie Duo - Stagioni "Rêverie Duo is an acoustic duo - Valerio Daniele acoustic guitar and Redi Hasa cello – whose art is largely drawn from natural and ‘atavistic’ influences. The recordings on “Stagioni” were made in the atmospheric environment of a fifteenth century... SLAM 534 $15.00